• Post Office Mural - Rayville LA
    "LaSalle's Quest for the Mississippi" was painted in 1939 by Elsie Driggs and "...depicts the story of LaSalle's travels just before he discovered the mouth of the Mississippi" (Kimmerle, 2008, p. 37). Driggs painted primarily in the Precisionist style, although "she adjusted...in order to make the mural more suitable as a work of public art using a more narrative composition" in the post office mural (Fine Lines, 2009, p. 9). Driggs began the study in 1936 as a watercolor on paper, and the completed work was hung in Rayville in 1939.